Rees v. Cobbs & Mitchell Co.

In Smith v. Meier & Frank Invest. Co., 87 Or. 683 (171 P. 555), this court disposed of a case similar to the present one; the plaintiff there was injured when he slipped upon an icy public sidewalk in front of premises owned by that defendant in the same city. The then ordinance of Portland was not dissimilar from its present one in any material particular, except as to the penalty, which was materially less. It was there held:

“The snow and ice ordinance mentioned does not either expressly or impliedly give to an individual any right of action against the persons named therein who fail to…